Walther Stein

Walther Stein (born February 9, 1864 in Langenberg (Rhineland) , † September 29, 1920 in Göttingen ) was a German diplomat and historian.

Life

Stein attended the Evangelisch Stiftische Gymnasium Gütersloh . After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Eberhard Karls University for History and Philology in 1884 . On December 15, 1884, he was reciprocated in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . Walter Amelung was at the same time . At the end of the summer term 1885 inactivated , he moved to the Leipzig University and the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin . Since the Year of Three Emperors in the Cologne city archive operates, he was in 1889 in Berlin to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1892 he was in Giessen to process the Hanseatic document book . In 1900 he completed his habilitation at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . The Georg August University of Göttingen appointed him in 1903 as associate professor . In 1905 he took over the editing of the Hanseatic History Papers . The edited by him volumes 8-11 of the Hansische Urkundenbuch published in 1899, 1903, 1907-1916 and 1916 in Leipzig. In 1919 he was appointed to the chair for history in Göttingen . He died the following year at the age of 56.

Works

• Files on the history of the constitution and administration of the city of Cologne in the 14th and 15th centuries . Droste, Düsseldorf 1993, reprint of the Bonn edition, 1893–1895.
• The Hanseatic League and England: A Hanseatic-English naval war in the 15th century . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905.
• Bismarck the iron chancellor's life in nearly 200 pictures; in the year of the 100th birthday of Bismarck and the great war . Siegen, Leipzig 1905.
• Stein's history of the world war . Siegen Berlin 1915.
• About fatherland and freedom. Reality shots from the great war with an introduction . Victories 1917.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 126/119.
2. ^ Dissertation: The Cooperative of German Merchants in Bruges in Flanders .
3. ^ Habilitation thesis: Contributions to the history of the German Hanseatic League up to the middle of the fifteenth century .